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rude | ruddy |

As a proper noun rude

is settlement in croatia, near zagreb.

As an adjective ruddy is

reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.

As a noun ruddy is

(informal) ruddy duck.

As a verb ruddy is

to make reddish in colour.

rude

English

(mismatch between senses and translations)

Adjective

(er)
  • bad-mannered
    • The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.
  • Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.
  • tough, robust.
  • undeveloped, unskilled, basic.
  • * 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)
    • But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge
  • * (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops
    • When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
    Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;
    And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,
    Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
  • * 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society
    • It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject
  • hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * rudeness

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    ruddy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Reddish in color, especially of the face, fire, or sky.
  • (British, slang) A mild intensifier.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * (reddish in color) rosy * (intensifier) bally, bleeding, blimming, bloody, blooming * See also

    See also

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    Noun

    (ruddies)
  • (informal) ruddy duck
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 4, author=Deborah Baldwin, title=Close to Nature, and the Airport, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In winter, snow geese land at West Pond, a Robert Moses legacy that ought to be called Duck Soup: at this time of year look for ruddies , greater scaups, Northern pintails, American widgeons and gadwalls. }}

    Verb

  • To make reddish in colour.
    • The sunset ruddied our faces.
    (Sir Walter Scott)
    English intensifiers